Arriving in Bali: Budget flights, chaos and first impressions We flew to Bali on a budget flight from Perth, determined to keep our trip as light and affordable as possible. Everything we needed for five weeks of backpacking and island adventures was squeezed into a 7kg hand luggage allowance, a challenge that required stuffing every […]
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The journey the Gili’s & botched bookings: One of the benefits of our style of travel is flexibility to determine our travel plans on the fly. Having really settled into a more relaxed routine, we’d decided to pause for one night in Padang Bai, breaking up the journey and allowing us a bit more time
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A short hop to Lombok and the rice fields of Rinjani: Getting from Gili Air to Lombok’s Bangsal Port is an easy hop, about 10 minutes by speedboat or 15–20 minutes on the public boat. The harbour on Gili A is full of ticket kiosks and the usual touts vying for attention. Somewhere in the